More about churches in the green
The other night I had a dream that I went to a church and Leonard Cohen was the pastor. Instead of a sermon, he sang “Suzanne” and some people starting singing along and I sang along and got some of the words wrong but getting everything right wasn’t the point. He looked about 50, like when “Hallelujah” came out. And he wore a green suit with a white shirt and green tie. It occurs to me that this dream has a lot to do with the posts here on sustainability (“church in the green”), and that this dream is a working out of what I mean about art not being a means to some didactic, narrated end; about worship or fellowship or reflection or whatever not being a group of people listening to one person talk about something (or many things) for 20 minutes; about the kairos of art and the being of community. I suppose it’s a feel more than anything. I’d like to explain it more, but also, I’d like not to. I would, though, like to dream it again.
